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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder why they didn't become a PA.  [/quote]
I wonder why they did not become a doctor, or pharmacist or some other better respected/paid health care professional[/quote]

They're really different jobs. Pharmacists do not do a lot of patient care, for example. They consult on medication and have to know a ton about that and often know better about medications than doctors, but in terms of patient care, that's not what they're doing. Doctors do patient care, but it's higher level care. Most doctors do not do intake work or really get to know their patients beyond the presenting problem. If a person wants to do direct patient care, that person should go into nursing.[/quote]
+1

Pharmacists almost never see the patient unless they participate in rounds (which happens maybe once a week, tops). They're usually hanging out in the bowels of the hospital, fielding phone calls from clinicians about dosing/med compatibility/drug of choice and nurses frustrated because ordered medications haven't yet been approved or delivered. Pharmacy sends techs to the units to deliver medications and act like it's an inconvenience to cross the threshold into a patient's room when they're delivering something emergent or heavy (like dialysis bags).

Some doctors never lay hands on the patient and rely on the nurse to tell them everything they write in a progress note. I work in critical care and both the bedside RN and the midlevel (PA or NP) do assessments, which are the basis for the physician's plan of care. So many patients have surgery and are puzzled they never see their doctor. It's because the surgeons usually breeze through the unit in street clothes, ask the midlevels and nurses a few questions, then they write notes and leave without ever seeing the patient.[/quote]

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